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Re: Help! Unreal crashes on startup

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From: B&B
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:00
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"Chris Bassett" <cbassett@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8lnh4k$bbg$1@taliesin2.netcom.net.uk...

> I thought OpenGL was meant to be better that D3D? On my old Matrox
G400 the
> OpenGL renderer was far better than the D3D one - well okay it was
slower,
> but the image quality was far superior.

You can't generalise - it depends on the quality of API support in the
application/game itself.

The general consensus of owners of Nvidia gear in alt.games.unreal
seems to be that D3D is definitely the way to go in Unreal and Unreal
Tournament.

Cheers - BB
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From: "B&B" <bunmohNOSPAMTHANKYOU@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: Help! Unreal crashes on startup
Date: 2000/07/26
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